Earthlink changed its incoming server names

Michael Burgoon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.fetchmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

This isn’t a bug report but a configuration question:

I’m using fetchmail on a Synology DSM server running DSM 6.2.3. 
My email address is [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
My old fetchmailrc file, below, worked until Earthlink changed their server locations:

# Edit carefully, see the fetchmail(1) manual page, section "THE RUN CONTROL FILE".

poll pop.mindspring.com <http://pop.mindspring.com/> proto pop3 user "mburgoon" password “*", is "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>” here

recently Earthlink disabled the pop.mindspring.com <http://pop.mindspring.com/> domain and made me change to pop.earthlink.net <http://pop.earthlink.net/>,  I changed my fetchmailrc file to the following below with the error messages I received:

# Edit carefully, see the fetchmail(1) manual page, section "THE RUN CONTROL FILE".

poll  pop.earthlink.net <http://pop.earthlink.net/> proto pop3 user "mburgoon" password “*", is "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>” here

Error from fetcmail:
Fetchmail could not get mail from [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

The attempt to get authorization failed.
This probably means your password is invalid, but some servers have
other failure modes that fetchmail cannot distinguish from this
because they don't send useful error messages on login failure.

The fetchmail daemon will continue running and attempt to connect
at each cycle.  No future notifications will be sent until service
is restored.
-- 
The Fetchmail Daemon


So I tried the following:

# Edit carefully, see the fetchmail(1) manual page, section "THE RUN CONTROL FILE".

poll  pop.earthlink.net <http://pop.earthlink.net/> proto pop3 user “[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" password “*", is "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>” here

Error from fetchmail:
Fetchmail could not get mail from [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

The attempt to get authorization failed.
This probably means your password is invalid, but some servers have
other failure modes that fetchmail cannot distinguish from this
because they don't send useful error messages on login failure.

The fetchmail daemon will continue running and attempt to connect
at each cycle.  No future notifications will be sent until service
is restored.
-- 
The Fetchmail Daemon

I tried one more time with the following:

# Edit carefully, see the fetchmail(1) manual page, section "THE RUN CONTROL FILE".

poll ppop.earthlink.net <http://ppop.earthlink.net/> proto pop3 localdomains mindspring.com <http://mindspring.com/> user "mburgoon" password “*", is "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>” here

and got the following error from fetchmail:
Fetchmail could not get mail from [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

The attempt to get authorization failed.
This probably means your password is invalid, but some servers have
other failure modes that fetchmail cannot distinguish from this
because they don't send useful error messages on login failure.

The fetchmail daemon will continue running and attempt to connect
at each cycle.  No future notifications will be sent until service
is restored.
-- 
The Fetchmail Daemon

I can send the log file, but it just says pretty much the same thing.  I don’t know how to tell pop.earthlink.net <http://pop.earthlink.net/> that it should be looking for [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.  Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong? I’m sure its a simple configuration parameter, but I can’t find it.

Thanks!

Mike Burgoon
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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